Emerging Diseases

CDC's 21st Century Plan: Repair, Prepare

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 28th, 1999

Repair public-health potholes while paving and planning new highways to speed responses to emerging diseases.

That's the best way to keep the public health moving forward despite the many threats posed by emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in the 21st century, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"We must make a long-term commitment now to ensure the capacity to address current EID problems as well as those in the future," wrote Sue Binder of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues.

Binder et al. examined EID issues for the next century in the...

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